One of the best movies no one saw last year was Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. This gripping thriller featured a comeback worthy performance from Gere and top notch work from the young director and screenwriter, Nicholas Jarecki. What could have been a standard anti-Wall Street story becomes so much more by seamlessly blending the joint thriller plotlines of […]

Here’s hoping everyone’s had a great holiday season! But for avid Oscar watchers, this time of the year brings more than gay happy meetings and silent nights; it also gives us one of our favorite things: the heart of the Oscar season.

We’ve got more releases this week! A few movies are out today. Head on over to my other round up post from this week which is right here, to see the other releases from this week! For today: Premium Rush, Resident Evil: Retribution, Arbitrage, and Killer Joe are in my opinion the big releases. Here’s a […]

We’re at the point where it’s better to throw in and summarize some official predictions, updating them as we move along, than to summarize the events of the week. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the most nominated film at the Screen Actors Guild’s SAG Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globes, and the Broadcast Film Critics […]

Dear Readers, They say that little girls are made of “sugar and spice, and everything nice.” Assuming that grown-up women are made of the same, at least to some extent, I wonder: Do women also look for and/or need these qualities in our movies? In other words, what ingredients does the recipe for a “successful” chick […]

The big albeit anticlimactic Oscar news of the week is that David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook took the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s not surprising, as the rave responses for the romantic dramedy quickly cemented it as one to watch this season. While some dub Silver Linings as this year’s […]